All - No shipping problem from us, we shipped it several weeks ago. Looks like Diamond might have hit some bumps. All orders have now been filled, so the remaining stores should get their copies next week. Sorry folks, but totally out of our hands.

I think the proper response on our part, for those of use who did not get it, would be to ask for penance by offering to eat Warren Ellis' brain custard. Even if the non reception of AM #3 was out of our hands. Obviously we made some god somewhere mad.

After reading this issue I sat down and read it again with the previous two, which really helped explain what Anna is seeing when between worlds. I'm still not entirely sure what's up with the top three panels involving the plane and the black... thing, though. I get that a strut fell off and hit the city, which was relatively nifty, I just don't know why it fell.

Other than that I'm really enjoying this series. The mellow ending was a bit of a surprise, but worked nicely to ground the series after the mega-explosive action. Anna doesn't look right in her civvies, blending in with the rest of the world.

This is turning into something wonderful, I think. I loved the transition at the end - from flame-haired ninja into someone normal and vulnerable. And was that Mr Ellis himself getting the boot from the pub?!

The amount of good old sci-fi goodness is great! I feels as though this is a modern day sci-fi story that could have been told in the 50's or 60's. It has a cold war feel to it, except the tension is between the different dimensions rather then countries.

Forgive me if this a bit off base (you are the forgiving type, right?), but Anna Mercury seems to be a rendition of the relationship we have to our fictional online selves. I don't mean RPGs necessarily, but to one extent or another, an online persona is something of a historical fiction. We're based on a real person, and while the avatar we present is deeply connected to our day to day, face to face self, it's really not us. We're deprived of the tools we would use to talk to each other in person: intonation, facial expression, bribery with drugs, and forced to use the tools of fiction to translate our personalities to someone sitting at their computer.

It didn't bother me, it seemed natural actually, maybe it's because I'm use to it though, don't know. I honestly didn't expect her to have a life outside of the secret spy business though, I thought they'd pulled her out of the looney bin or something from issue two when they were talking about how she was the only successful crazy person to do what she does.